July 4, 1929
On display Wednesday of this week at the offices of the Highland Hereford Association, was a very peculiar reptile, fish, alligator, or whatever one might wish to call the thing.
Joe Mitchell brought it down from the ranch at Sierra Blanca and stated that over 100 of the “varmints” had been caught in one of the concrete tanks on the place and that they varied in size from very small to as much as a foot in length.
The specimen brought here was about six inches long, had a tail resembling a catfish, had four feet, very much resembling an alligator, had horns on top of its head, several bunches of them, and had a head and face like a fish. The “varmint” was anything but saintly in appearance, resembling descriptions of a Chinese devil.
The specimen is to be sent to Sul Ross college to the biological department for examination.